Robinhood Chain kept producing blocks while its Ethereum blob posts paused for 14 minutes

Robinhood Chain continued to create blocks at its regular 101 ms cadence on September 4, but its batch‑posting to Ethereum’s blob market stopped for a total of 14 minutes. The interruption affected only the data that is posted to Ethereum, not the on‑chain activity of Robinhood itself.

Uninterrupted block production

From 12:00 UTC to 15:00 UTC the chain produced 106,756 blocks, matching an average interval of one block every 101 ms. Sampled blocks during the period contained 14‑22 transactions each, confirming that the network remained fully operational.

Two gaps in blob posting

The batch poster (address 0xDaa5…87F4) normally submits a blob transaction roughly every 12 seconds. It failed to post for 8 minutes 36 seconds (12:29:47 – 12:38:23 UTC) and then for a further 5 minutes 24 seconds (12:42:47 – 12:48:11 UTC), totaling exactly 14 minutes of missing data on Ethereum.

Blob market conditions

During the first gap, Ethereum blocks had 263 unused blob slots and a base fee of about 0.0086 gwei, well below the poster’s bid of 0.0616 gwei. The second gap coincided with a rise in the blob base fee to roughly 0.0625 gwei, exceeding the poster’s standing bid, and the batch that ended the gap raised its ceiling to 0.8187 gwei.

Response and fee adjustments

When posting resumed, the poster increased its fee ceiling multiple times, eventually bidding 0.8187 gwei and later reaching 1.4239 gwei, far above the prevailing base fee. It is unclear whether this escalation was a reaction to market pressure or a recovery measure.

Impact on downstream services

Direct user transactions on Robinhood Chain experienced no delay. However, infrastructure providers that rely on the chain’s data stream saw a brief performance impact due to the high number of feed subscribers.

Economic snapshot

• Robinhood Chain earned $4.59 million in fees over 24 hours (up 3.1%).
• Total value locked: $839.7 million.
• DEX volume: $1.69 billion (up 8.6% daily, 98.2% weekly).
• ARB price: $0.1327 (down 5.7% 24 h).
• PONS price: $0.6903 (up 12.8%).
• ETH price: $2,457.42 (down 2.2%).